Dr. Rachel Huang
Stanford University
Now at University of Texas at Austin
The PMSE Division is pleased to announce that Rachel Huang is the winner of the 2024 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This award, sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company and administered by the PMSE Division, is given for the best paper presented at the Eastman Chemical Student Award Symposium as part of the PMSE program. The Eastman Chemical Student Award Symposium was held at the Fall 2024 National ACS Meeting in Denver.
Dr. Rachel Huang completed her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with Prof. Zhenan Bao and Prof. Yi Cui. Her thesis work focused on designing polymeric materials for Li batteries, which she presented at the ACS Fall Eastman Symposium 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Benny Freeman at the University of Texas at Austin, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. Her research is at the intersection of E-Chem devices and polymer membranes.
The other finalists who presented at the Award Symposium were Hesham Aboukelia (University of Oklahoma), Sarah Fisher (Texas A&M University), Rishi Gurnani (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matthew Sanders (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Tianjian Yang (University of Connecticut).